Radiator Dimensions

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Re: Radiator Dimensions

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James, basically the entire tubular structure at the front of the Hawk chassis is absent on the original. Therefore the radiator can sit completely in front of any part of the chassis at its full width. The structure is absent because the original has no upper wishbone mounts, as the transverse leafspring fulfills this function. Obviously the Hawk doesn’t have the spring, so needs wishbones.
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About as close as you can get in a Hawk, it's never going to be original.
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Interesting Stu, must admit the engineer in me says the more upright radiator offers better cooling (unless properly ducted at an angle) - looks like a thick core, can you supply a drawing?

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Worth mentioning that the original radiator is a crossflow. It is fully shrouded at the top and fills the space between the inner wings.
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Yes indeed Roger, I noted that the Fluidyne one has tanks either side.....
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Hi James,
sent you a mail.
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Stu,
Did you get that Brise Fabrications rad to work? It's a while ago now but IIRC it had a siphon outlet at the bottom to allow a deeper matrix.
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Hi Roger,
It wasn't big enough for the Ford V8 hence why I got Brise to make the bigger one that is now fitted and has worked fine for 4 years.
A chap who has a mild tuned Rover 3.5litre has that one now.
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Just tried the photos again, with no success. Most of my car photos are 4000x3000 pixels, and the only way I can find of reducing them is to crop them, which renders them useless. I've tried saving them as around 3mb jpegs down to 350kb jpegs but this doesn't seem to affect the number of pixels.
It seems that if anyone needs photos for my posts, they'll need to pm me their email address and I'll send them separately. Weird - don't have a problem posting on any other forums.

I really don't understand now. I've just checked the photo I posted earlier in this thread, and that's 4032x3024. I clearly have a problem with this forum.
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Hi Roger,
Every photo I add as an attachment gets automatically scaled down. They are stored on my PC as up to 6MB pictures and I click on the attachment tab and it scales them automatically to less than 300k. Is it a Mac thing maybe? I use Windows 10 and no issues. This pic is 2Mb and I did nothing to it. Automatically resized to 167kb.
Andy can you advise?
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